Today the Cocain trade is ruled by predominantly Mexican Kartells and their as fashist affiliates are having devastating impact on pretty much all levels. Medellin is gone since the CIA declared their boss, because of his socialist political views the enemy of the state and Cali is under fire by the Mexican Kartells conquering their South American Jungle soil, possibly even being totally out of business.
They run their business as they are, with pushers rising in rank within their organisation by driving around firing live rounds at innocents making sure they go to hell or full tattooed skins praying to Madonna Muerte, down to outlaws divided and organiced by race theory and all high on their own gear in constant conflict.
Cyberpunk will only come true, if the fashist organisation that created that lawless, because outlawed trade, ruling it for about 50 to 60 years vanishes, but this needs either a major scandal on a Watergate level or the ongoing Secret Service underground war ending with the Nazibabies dead for good.
The greed for the white powder won't stop, so. Killing spirits is way more difficult than killing humans.
Those in the trade off direct pay checks, basically off the CIA, are all in for the livestyle. If they loose top level protection the Police will get a proper grip quickly and actually manage to take the sandbox and primary school level players off the street for real having judges actually using the laws instead of loopholes based on bullshit argumentation trying to protect their own supply line somehow.
Today the clients are lawyers, journalists, artists and managers.
If the business was done for the cash, or to take away soil of the Nazibabies just to do it this was the way:
Cocain per kilo needs about 370 kilos of coca leaves, plus a chemical factory using toxic substances like gasoline, ammonia, sulfuric acid, sodium permanganate, and caustic soda to create the substance. Therefore greenhouses known from the Hemp business are no option.
Than the gear has to be transported to the consumer either across the Caribbean or to Europe across the Atlantic avoiding detection by military level custom services. As soon the product hit consumer soil it needs to get to the point of sale which is either a Discotheque or a Villa or Office depending, if the party crowed or the livestyle consumer are the client.
Good business is based on trust and tries to create stable and long lasting reliable business connections, in every trade.
Therefore Cocain has no place as a Party drug, because the client will talk, if busted and has a high likely hood facing opportunity to do so encouraged by hardly knowing the business partner.
The livestyle client is on the other side part of the rich and filthy having a major interest in staying undetected and therefore trying to keep things as quite as possible. Their desired livestyle is easily understandable by the Billionaires blabla videos on YouTube and includes Yacht called boats in the Caribbean or the Mediterranean. That's where they and them alike meet up in posh restaurants, clubs, villas and bays in packs of other yachts in a price range starting at about a hundred grand being able to pick up a years worth gear until the next vacation.
Getting busted within the livestyle crowed that will use hardly more than two or three grams per day adding up to half to a kilo per year will happen, if the regular weekly or monthly delivery boy meetings are detected and observed, while a bag of flour, possibly in splits, is easily hidden in a luxurious ride north either once a year or split into well appreciated weekend trips with some home office time south.
There is no need to give e.g. an underground warfare trained organisation starting points to make their way up the rows and a lot of reason to cut out 1% Rockers, Gangs and corrupt Police all carrying the guns needed by a terrorist level operating enemy up for blood and disruption the way terrorist work per definition creating plenty of reason for average Coppa to look away in pure mayhem.
Whole sale also either guarantees higher prices or sweet discount.
The bigger of these boats called yachts have plenty of possible hiding spots for at least smaller loads and can well travel using the eastern route port hopping along the Caribbean further south or meet pretty much anywhere in the Mediterranean with even more ports and bays at beautiful exclusive beaches.
Big loads in e.g. containers are a major financial risk that are solved by violence especially in fashist organisations making only sense, if the money is transferred rather than exchanged, which is only possible by an organisation with quite some power involved. Fuck you CIA.
Other ways are narco-subs or narco-planes which both port big loads that also need to be unloaded at a save place in a limited time frame under stress creating amounts exchanged that further upscale the required protection.
Than there would be a Cyberpunk organisation well up for taking out CIA operatives and their sicario affiliates directly every time a clear shot came across in a Shadowrun adventure at a few table top nights out.
You'll need: the contacts to the powder producers, contacts of sailors on international trade routes and horizontally integrated distributers that like being the bad guy among their buddies during summer time.
Small loads of only a few kilos that fit a sailors rucksack start making their way to exchange places from the small labs to the coast line. A few miles off shore the sailor takes on the load in exchange and drops in exchange later having the product find its end customer in sweet easy vacation among look and mind alikes.
Any hint of intervention by the old fashists in business turnes the Cyberpunk part in this run into the interesting part keeping all they have taking them out for ever, while limiting prison time and risk in the trade for all except the Cyberpunks securing the system.
For know fighting CIA run commandos is a pretty dam good table top scenario along with coordinating commission based contacts based on a peer to peer level rather than a top to bottom approach.
Sometimes I hope Corona turns yesterday to shit....lol
